Menander Quotes

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

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• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Creation

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Successful
  • Face
  • Adversity

• We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

  

  Tacitus
  • Happy
  • Wealth
  • Adversity

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time
  • Adversity
  • Loss

• I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • World
  • Adversity
  • Overcoming

• I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Friend
  • Adversity

• Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life
  • Adversity

• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

  

  Periander
  • Adversity

• In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

  

  John Churton Collins
  • Friends
  • Adversity

• Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Shows
  • Adversity
  • Frail

• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wise
  • inspirational

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Live
  • Songs
  • New York

• Art is man's refuge from adversity.

  

  Menander
  • Adversity
  • Refuge